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Bush Foundation: Description: Bush Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation based in St. Paul, Minnesota, is committed to enhancing the quality of life in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota by making grants to nonprofit organizations and providing fellowships to individuals in those states. Our primary grantmaking areas are human services and health, education, and arts and humanities. Our fellowship programs for individuals are in leadership, arts, and medicine.
Blandin Foundation: Description: Blandin Foundation, Minnesota’s largest rural-based, private philanthropy is tightly focused on the economic viability of rural communities, as part of its mission to strengthen rural Minnesota and the Grand Rapids area, the Foundation’s home.
Dakota Medical Foundation: Description: Dakota Medical Foundation is a familiar name in our region. The Foundation has been in existence for a long time-first as a founding organization of a local Fargo, North Dakota, hospital, and now as a funding organization for programs designed to make people healthier.
Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation: Description: We make charitable giving easy, flexible and effective. Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation (FMAF) is the charitable giving resource serving two counties in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Initiative Foundation: Description: The Initiative Foundation provides grants for projects and programs that advance the Foundation’s mission to "Unlock the potential of the people of Central Minnesota to build and sustain healthy communities."
Jerome Foundation: Description: The Jerome Foundation, created by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill (1905-1972), makes grants to support the creation and production of new artistic works by emerging artists, and contributes to the professional advancement of those artists.
Medtronic Foundation: Description: Medtronic’s business is restoring people to full and healthy lives. But that’s not all. For 25 years, the Medtronic Foundation has been improving the lives of people and communities. Since our inception, we’ve made grants of nearly $100 million to health, education and community organizations worldwide. And we’re continuing to expand our community giving to improve the health of people with chronic diseases, educate future generations of scientific innovators, and enhance the communities where we do business. Why? Because sharing the health is the right thing to do.
Minnesota Council on Foundations: Description: Founded in 1969, the Minnesota Council on Foundations is a regional membership association of grantmakers working to improve the health and vitality of our communities. The Council's membership includes family and other private foundations, community and other public foundations, and corporate foundations and giving programs.
Minnesota Prevention Resource Center: Description: The Minnesota Prevention Resource Center (MPRC) is a project of the Minnesota Institute of Public Health with funding provided through a grant from the Chemical Health Division, Minnesota Department of Human Services. MPRC received a 2006 Health Award from the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. MPRC is the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's (CSAP) Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resources (RADAR) Network State Center.
Northland Foundation: Description: Created in 1986 by The McKnight Foundation, the Northland Foundation is a regional foundation serving the communities of northeastern Minnesota. Unlike the typical concept of a "foundation" — which is a charitable organization that makes grants to programs from their endowment — the Northland Foundation is unique.
Northwest Area Foundation: Description: The Northwest Area Foundation is committed to helping communities reduce poverty. Through our three programs - Ventures, Connections, and Horizons - we work with communities in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, providing knowledge, financial resources, products, and services.
Southwest Minnesota Foundation: Description: Whether you’ve been a friend of the Southwest Minnesota Foundation for a long time, or are just becoming acquainted, we hope our web site will help you to get to know us. We provide the resources that help people create positive change to meet the needs of southwest Minnesota. Whether it’s a new way of addressing senior wellness, a program to help newcomers call southwest Minnesota their home, a loan to make a new business thrive, or if it’s about people making a difference, there’s a good chance the Southwest Minnesota Foundation was there to help make it happen. The Southwest Minnesota Foundation's region includes the eighteen counties of Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Rock, Swift, and Yellow Medicine.
Surdna Foundation: Description: We are interested in fostering catalytic, entrepreneurial programs, which offer viable solutions to difficult systemic problems. We seek, as well, high quality, direct service programs which advance our philanthropic goals. We enjoy collaboration with our grantees and seek to work with them in supportive, collegial relationships. We recognize the importance of collaborating with other foundations to build joint, diverse programs and to leverage our funding with that of other foundations, corporations and governmental bodies. We make both project and general support grants. We do not generally fund individuals, capital campaigns or building construction, or projects that are internationally based or focused.